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Monday, 13 May 2013

The Intellectual and Cultural Forum in the Kadhimiya district
in Baghdad, hosted Comrade Mufid al-Jazairy at a publicseminar on Friday
afternoon 10May 2013 on Iraqi culture and its tasks.

The garden of the Forum was packed with daughters
and sons of Kadhimiya. Comrade Al-Jazairy stressed the enormity of the tasks
that the country is facing on the level of construction, re-construction and
laying foundations, due to the devastation that still prevails in all the
fields of life, services and production, despite the fact that ten years have
passed after the fall Saddam's dictatorial regime. There is also the enormity
of what is required in terms of the reconstruction of souls and ridding the
Iraqi citizen of the consequences of distortion and destruction of values.
These were targets during the tyranny of the dictatorial regime, and they are
today the basis of an environment which is conducive for the sustainability of
terror and rampant corruption.

Al-Jazairy explained that confronting this reality,
and undertaking the afore-mentioned major tasks mentioned, require the adoption
of elements of a culture that addresses the mind and influences it, and that
provides the education and preparation of a qualified productive person. Such a
person is indispensible for proceeding along the path of reconstruction and
progress. These elements are science, thought and knowledge in general. They also
include research, study, learning .. etc. To achieve this, there must be a
comprehensive re-examination of the philosophy and system of education in our
country, the development of schools and universities, and their curricula and performance
on the basis of science and its modern methods.

In addition, the elements of culture that address human
feelings, emotions and passion, and ensure his upbringing, refinement and equipping
him with lofty national values ​​and humanitarian values, must be adopted. They
ensure that he turns into a good citizen that the country needs as much as its
need for the qualified and productive individual. These elements are
literature, art and creative forms of artistic expression in general.

Comrade Al-Jazairy also stressed what the country
badly needs today is, in the end, the good qualified and productive citizen, whose
presence and involvement in the process of material and spiritual construction
of our country can only be ensured through culture; that addresses both the
mind and the soul.

Al-Jazairy concluded by saying: “It is therefore
essential to provide unlimited and unconditional support for culture, and in
all its fields. It is the means for the completion of the tasks of
reconstruction, modernization and comprehensive progress, which are long
overdue.